AVASS were the company building the Brighsun electric bus in Melbourne. Sadly, the bus project fell through and they had 1.7 MWh worth of LFP batteries in need of a home. They very kindly contacted our association and offered us first dibs on the cells. They are too low C-rate for a vehicle, but perfect for a storage battery, so we divvied them up and made sure each branch got a fair allocation of battery packs.

Unsurprisingly, the 23 kWh battery packs were snaffled up very fast (only 1 left allocated to the ACT) but there are still a few 11 kWh battery packs left in Tas, Vic, Qld and NSW, and one in the ACT. I look forward to seeing them get built into some awesome projects here soon!

Makes me kinda sad to learn that an electric bus project has fallen through. I don't have any use of one of these batteries, but I'm happy others do.

Yeah I was really bummed to hear about that too. Would have much preferred an Australian company to build E-buses than a bunch of storage batteries, but if there is a silver lining, it's that the EV community got to make use of the remaining cells.

They are very light for LFP. I can see why they were going to use them in buses.
I could make a 10kWh 'generator'. Plug it into the 240V to charge up, then it provides 240V output. Use it as a range extender for the Brumby (charger on while driving), and as an AC coupled home storage battery. The battery would only weigh 75kg - so perhaps not much more than 100kg with a suitable box, inverter etc.